Azure Cloud Engineer

Overview Senior Azure Architect - Platform Engineering. We are building an enterprise-scale internal developer platform designed to eliminate infrastructure friction. Our goal is to provide application teams with a seamless experience that balances speed and flexibility with strict security, compliance, and cost governance. As a Senior Azure Architect, you will be a key contributor to the standards and patterns that power this platform. You will design the standardized architectures that allow our engineering teams to deploy complex, production-ready workloads securely and reliably. You will bridge the gap between infrastructure operations and developer experience, ensuring our cloud architecture scales effectively with the business. Responsibilities As a Senior Azure Architect, you will: Contribute to the standards and patterns that power the internal developer platform. Design standardized architectures to enable production-ready workloads that are secure and reliable. Bridge the gap between infrastructure operations and developer experience to ensure scalable cloud architecture. Required Skills & Experience Expert Azure knowledge. Deep understanding of the Azure control plane and service portfolio. Knowledge of limits, quotas, and architectural trade-offs of AKS, App Service, Networking, and Storage. Infrastructure as Code (Terraform): strong proficiency and ability to architect modular, reusable, and testable infrastructure code for enterprise environments. Advanced data pattern experience: designing high-availability data solutions using Azure SQL/PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB (multi-region write/read), and caching strategies. Network engineering: strong grasp of Azure networking fundamentals, including Virtual Networks, Application Gateways, Azure Front Door/Traffic Manager, and private connectivity. Production operations: experience with observability stacks (Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Prometheus) and designing for day-2 operations. Security & Identity: proficiency with Entra ID OIDC/OAuth flows, RBAC models, and cloud security posture management (CSPM). Nice to Have Experience with Wiz or similar cloud security tools. Background in FinOps, including cost anomaly detection and budget enforcement. Familiarity with GitOps principles (ArgoCD/Flux) and CI/CD workflows. Experience interacting with Azure management APIs. #J-18808-Ljbffr